Herman's Profile
Herman's Interests
Plants in my Garden: 2467 different succulent plants, approx. 200 different trees, approx. 500 different shrubs, numerous different perennials
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: The joy of it
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: asleep
Occupation: gardener
Herman
Member Since: 5/1/2008
Last Seen: 20 hours ago
About Herman
Me and my wife Yvonne are the proud owners of Soekershof; Private Mazes & Botanical Gardens in South Africa.
Soekershof (just google to find out more) is everything a (botanical) garden should be; a place of calmness, humor, education, relaxation and contemplation.
Not a (botanical) garden which has to generate its income out of restaurants, 'craft' (?) shops and coffee corners at the entrance.
We have chosen for the pure 'down to Earth' approach; unusual but once people have taken the first step to visit they are coming back.
Our succulent gardens (with the oldest -anno 1910- cactus in South Africa) are a display of over 2400 different succulents from all over the world under the open sky and we cultivate, in principle, fully organically without he use of fertilisers and other chemicals.
We also have a maze. This Klaas Voogds Maze (13870 sqm net surface) is also unusual. Not because of its size but also the concept behind.
Herman's Photos
Recent Blog Entries
After many announcements we can make now the final announcement of our brand new website. A few photo's have to be added; others replaced or exchanged between pages but for the rest we are very happy with it. The first responses are very encouragi...
New Protea specie in South Africa
And we named it after the sponsor of the stakes: Protea rusticus
A classical French design succulent garden
We are proud to have hosted Eulalie Baudet from Blois in France for a couple of months. She studies landscaping at 'L'ecole nationale supérieure de la nature et du paysage'. This study (only for promising and very talented students from all over Fran...
History of cacti in South Africa
On our website (just google to Soekershof) you can find a brief history of cacti in South Africa. Last night we received a nice addition from the USA: "The restablishment of the Soekershof garden after many years ofneglect is fantastic --- the pho...
Sneaky preview of a new website
In the beginning of this year we've started the process of 'branding' Soekershof. In the five years before we gathered so much information about our visitors in a database that at last we had a good insight in our target markets. Soekershof is quite ...
